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Creating a product data feed on the platform basically means that you establish a direct connection between the platform and the server on which your product data are stored. To be able to establish this connection, your product data must contain the following information:
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. Please mark that if the fields / columns are empty for a product we will still process it without any errors. We don’t have any validation on the data that is included in those fields:
A product number or ID.
A product name.
A brief description of the product.
A price of the product.
A product image URL, via which an image of your product can be displayed.
A target URL, i.e. a link to the page in the advertiser’s website where the main information of the product is available, and the product can be ordered.
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Apart from the content of the product data, there are also some technical requirements:
Make sure that your server accepts our user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36 (i19s.com)The size of your product data should not exceed 250 MB. Of course, you can spread data over multiple data sources and then create separated connections for them.
Your product data system must be able to send the product data within one minute for download, otherwise the download will fail.
In case your product data cannot be reached more than three times in a row, the product data feed will be disabled.
If you use an FTP-server, it has to support the FTP
SIZEcommand in order to check if the file changed before we download itThe system does not follow redirects, so your link should directly map to the data file
E-Tagsheaders are not supported yet
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